Inside Facebook recently posted thatEarlier this year, we speculated on when Facebook would launch APIs for Facebook Ads to allow performance marketers to automate ad management. Well, it appears it’s happening now: recently, Facebook started beta...
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A topic that continually fascinates me, and about which I sometimes blog, is how to construct startup management teams.  A startup is a very different business at the different stages of its evolution, with different challenges and leadership needs,...
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If July and August are any indications, the second half of 2009 is shaping up pretty nicely for the Polaris portfolio, especially considering we are in a recession. (Yes, this post is shameless promotion, but given the events of the last year I am not...
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I’d like to propose that “entrepreneur friendly VC” is code for “suckup VC,” and “hardass VC” is code for “d*ck VC,”  and that you should avoid both. Here’s why.I just retweeted a Twitter post..
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Steven Johnson’s cover article in this month’s Time Magazine has a great insight:“more significant [than the question whether Twitter sells to Google is] the fact that many of its core features and applications have been developed by...
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